Could humanity escape by moving to another neighboring universe, after billions of years - during that macabre era - just before our Universe ends, cold and dark, in its eternal demise?
"Parallel Worlds" is a space journey to the limits of imagination, a dazzling portrait of the stormy revolution sweeping the landscape of modern cosmology.
Our Universe resembles a cosmic bubble perpetually swirling within an ocean of bubble universes. What is its fate?
Does its disappearance signify the end of our own Universe?
Around it - at a distance of thousands - Great Explosions constantly occur, from which new, parallel (to our own) universes are born.
The idea of Parallel Worlds and the string theory that explains their existence were once viewed with suspicion, while scientists who defended it were considered mystics, madmen, or charlatans.
Today, physicists passionately support it, and even adopt its recent version, the M-theory, as the only correct theory, the most elegant and simple answer to the ultimate question: "What existed before the Big Bang?"
In "Parallel Worlds," internationally renowned theoretical physicist Michio Kaku - an author endowed with the gift of making the most ethereal ideas tangible - captivates the reader with a futuristic adventure, where the protagonist is the M-theory and the catalytic interpretation it proposes for the fate of the Universe.
We are living in the golden age of physics: space telescopes provide incredible images of the Universe (even in its earliest moments). Quantum mechanics, dark matter, superstrings, and the hidden dimensions of space keep the secrets of the Cosmos hermetically sealed. A brand new cosmological image is emerging, while reality in the Universe is even more improbable than the most "far-fetched" scientific imagination.